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Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms

Reauthorizes the program through 2010,  and increases to $50 million the funding authorization for Fiscal Year 2009 and 2010 for the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms program

Administrator: Economic Development Administration

Agency: Department of Commerce

Purpose: Provides consulting services to firms whose workers have been certified TAA eligible. Consulting services are administered through non-profit Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers (TAACs). There are 11 TAACs Nationally, which receive funding through the Economic Development Agency.

Description: When workers are certified by the DOL to be TAA benefit eligible, the Secretary of Commerce is required to reach out to the firm to notify it of its potential TAA eligibility. A final determination of eligibility is then made by the Secretary of Commerce. Grants for those eligible firms are made available by the Secretary to the 8 regional Economic Development Administrations, who then divide funding to the 11 regional TAACs, which provide various services to firms in order to increase their competitiveness.

Website: http://www.eda.gov/Research/TradeAdj.xml
http://www.rmtaac.org 

Phone: (800) 677-3791 (Rocky Mountain Trade Adjustment Assistance Center)